“Is Dharmic Bharat Majoritarian? New book debunks faulty social theory”, Swarajyamag, March 18, 2024:
“Some time in 2011, the UPA government had before it a draft bill titled Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence (Access to Justice and Reparations) Bill. The bill never saw the light of day, thanks largely to strong pushbacks from states that saw their own law and order powers being curtailed by the Centre.
But the real problem was how it defined targeted groups as “a religious or linguistic minority, in any state in the Union of India, or Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST)….”. In other words, only the “minorities” can be targeted.
Towards the end of 2014 and a few weeks into 2015, just a few months after Narendra Modi came to power with a clear majority, a few random incidents in some Delhi’s churches quickly became a ‘secular’ concern and were dubbed as attacks on Christians in general. The police investigated these incidents and pointed out that similar instances had occurred in more than 250 temples, gurudwaras, and mosques. There was no particular pattern to the incidents involving churches…..”
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